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Interesting report on federal reentry court program in Kansas City

By Douglas A. Berman

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A helpful reader alerted me to this interesting local article, headlined "Ex-cons get help keeping out of crime and on the job," discussing an innovative program developed in federal court in Kansas City. Here are some details: Under the direction of U.S. District Judge Ortrie Smith, a team of probation officers, lawyers and service providers intensely focus on a group of 20 or so probationers, doing everything within reason to keep them sober, employed and crime-free. In exchange, the participants can have years shaved off of their probation. The work is difficult, said Kim Grace, a senior federal probation officer. Probationers have tested positive for drugs, missed counseling sessions and failed to find employment. The larger consequences couldn?t be more serious: Be part of the two-thirds of all federal probationers who successfully manage their lives and do not return to prison or join the 33 percent who do...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 01, 2011 (boomark / email).